“one in the clapboard church that day could have predicted that within three months, politicians far across the world would decide to send bombs falling on a Hawaiian harbor that we had never heard of and the result would be the snatching away of Ogden and Jimmy to war. When I was about five years old, news had spread like a stampede across town that the banker from Montrose, Mr. Massey, had stalled his shiny ivory Auburn Speedster on the Iola train tracks and it had been demolished by an oncoming engine. Folks told of Mr. Massey being crushed in the driver’s seat, the car balled”